Charge: Kent man pimped runaway girls in Seattle, Portland

Published 9:38 pm, Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A Kent man alleged to have pimped two teen girls in Seattle and Portland now faces federal charges.

Federal prosecutors in Seattle claim Nathan Bonds picked up a runaway girl at a Kent McDonald’s and convinced her to work as a prostitute for him. Known to some as “Slim,” Bonds, 43, is alleged to have raped the 15-year-old girl shortly after meeting her.

Writing the court, a Kent detective assigned to an FBI taskforce said Bonds took the girl, a second teen and a woman to Portland to work as prostitutes. Bonds is alleged to have collected all the money the girls made and advertised their services on Backpage.com.

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Speaking with investigators, the girl said she met Bonds at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kent, the detective said in court papers. She was homeless at the time, having run away some time before, and Bonds offered her a ride to a friend’s house.

The following day, the girl called Bonds and he ultimately took her to a SeaTac motel and raped her, the detective continued. Having nowhere to turn, the girl began hanging out with Bonds, who spent much of his time at a McDonald’s near Seattle Center, posting prostitution advertisements on Backpage.com for another woman he was already pimping.

According to charging papers, Bonds convinced the girl she would make “easy money” working as a prostitute for him. Initially resistant, she ultimately agreed to do so and introduced Bonds to a 16-year-old friend of hers who had also run away from home.

Bonds, the girls and the woman he’d been pimping earlier moved into the Marco Polo Motel on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue before heading to Portland in April, the detective continued. There, as in Seattle, Bonds is alleged to have posted advertisements featuring the girls on Backpage.com.

Police claim to have recovered sexually charged photos of the girls Bonds posted to Backpage.com, a classified advertising site notorious for hosting ads for child prostitutes.

The 15-year-old girl told police Bonds took all the money she was paid for sex, and that Bonds set the prices.

Bonds was arrested in June and subsequently charged in King County Superior Court. Questioned by police, he denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the state charges.

Bonds has now been charged in U.S. District Court with sex trafficking a juvenile and related offenses. He remains jailed pending a detention hearing scheduled for Friday afternoon.